Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-13

!
 He saw no difference. but it was bes
 to be verbally correct Resuming
 MT. Gladstone protested against MT
 Balfour's statement that he expected
 only hostility from the opposition. When.
 ever anything beneficial to Ireland was pro
 posed the opposition hailed it with pleasure
 and did everything possible to further il
 despite the unwise policy of coercion which l was calculated to destroy social order. The
 opposition had enjoined upon the Irish strict
 obedience to the law and their advice was more effective in procuring obedience than
 all the governments coercion and eonstabu- l lary, managed as it was at Mitchelstown. 1 MT. Balfour had met Sir William Vernon | Harcourt's speech with simple tu quoque, which was usually the retort of persons in 8 l difficult position, but which legally meant
 nothing. What signifed it if the late govern | ment did the same thing. He was not prepared to admit that, but if they did it was l with cause. MT. Balfour had enunciated that all Liberal meetings might be suppressed on the grounds that they were called for im- proper purposes: The government had not even attempted to show that they had acted in conformity with the highest legal authori- ty. With regard to the Mitchelstown affair, which at once moved and narrowed the feel ! ings of the country, MT. Balfour's conduct seemed marked by singular rashness and inn pudence. It was competent for him under such circumstances to decline to enter into
 any discussion until an inquiry had been
 held. But instead he rushed to the conclu-
 s1on that all the police had done was right
 and that if they had acted other
 wise they would have been guilty
 of great neglect. So long as Mr.
 Balfour remained in his present office
 they might rely upon it that the same course
 would be pursued. MT. Balfour had done all
 in his power to bias the case and drive the
 opposition to state how the facts appeared.
 From the fact that the government failed to
 fhair 1Orfp 6air 1r7kx1 S1% !,
 Mitchelstown meeting in the way most con-
 venient to all concerned, he could only sup
 pose two xplanations-6rst, an intention to
 promote disorder (Parnelli.e cheers), which
 he did not entertain; second, that the au- thorities exhibited degree of stupidity and negligence such as is rarely seen.
 The responsibility rested with those who committed the first error, and it was grossly dangerous error for body Of police to force their way through dense crowd. There was no proof of any attempt to storm the barracks. On the otber hand the victims were two old men and a boy. He wished he could see either frmness con ciliation on the part of the government. He feared all that was occurring in Ireland tended to support the contention of the op- position that the governments legislation was directed not against crime, but against combination for liberty of speech and public l meeting. He was convinced that the people of England would not follow the govern l ment's course which could lead to nothing l but distress and disaster
 The attorney general reproached MT. Glad l stone, who, while protesting to reserve his 1 judgment, had very readily coma to the con ! clusion that the police were murderers for l having defended the government in their ac- tion at the Ennis meeting.
 MT. Dillon, who had just arrived from | Dublin, gave his account ot the trouble at | Why, he said, if the meeting l %as Hot illegal had # the H government b7amad 5he government for departing from 5he usual custom of asking for aecommoda- ion for reporter. Never before had he 'een an attempt after a meeting commenced % rush police and reporter through the l hickest part of crowd, and the first threat ,f disturbance was only quieted by two gen nen back from the police by striking them with umbrellas. If the Tipperary men had brought their blackthorns they would have made short work of the fifty policemen, | put the majority only had ash riding I ticks. Mir. Dillon, after further de- oncluded that it was his belief hat some of the shots were fired in revenge or blows from which the men were srnart- ng and others from sheer panic. Meetings would continue to be held in spite of the overnments proclamations, but he should lways advise the people to abstain from iolence.
 Lord Randolph Churchill said he did not egret the debate. It would bring vividly efore the country the nature of he struggle in which the government 7as engaged, the difficulties with which hey had to contend and the resources of heir opponents. That they had to fight on uestions of policy of the widest latitude was flowed by the opposition, but he doubted if here was any precedent for ex-ministers ringing all the force of their combinations nd all the weight of their influence to bear ot upon questions of policy, but upon the zecutive in it's executive capacity.
 MT. Parnell in moving adjournment of the ebate said it was unreasonable that he lould be asked to address the House at that Ite hour. He desired to move an amend , lent to the appropriation bill demanding c lat sworn inquiry be made into the Nit lelstown affair, whereupon MT. Smith re- linded him that he could move such amend l lent on the third reading of the bill. MT. Parnell's motion to adjourn the debate as defeated-22S to ST. MT. Ba1four announced that telegram had I s cen received regarding the affray at Lis oonvarna last night. The dispatch stated I lat five moonIighters were captured. Con- l able Wheelan was killed and three others ere seriously hurt. A number of rifles and ,yolvers and a quantity of ammunition l ere captured. The five men captured ere arrested inside the house of Farmer C exton. Two more were identified to day. armer Sexton, whom the gang had meant to | urder, had been summoned by the league nd censured for he had promised to surren- sr his farm. but did not do so. The gang T lerefore entered the house and were about c shoot him when the police, who lay in nbush, surprised them. The House adjourned at 5:15 a. m.